"The formidable mountains of Arabia Petraea still loomed miles away."
The Film Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology have been digitised and made available online thanks to the generosity of the 'Internet Archive'.
A silent film by Arthur and Kate Tode from 1930 is an interesting glimpse of travel in the Middle East between the wars. There are some stunning views of Petra [4:01] including a rare occurrence of snowfall [17:05] (apparently the first time it had snowed in Petra in 30 years), footage of the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus [24:02], the Ctesiphon Arch [33:00], the ruins of Babylon [37:14] and Ur [43:00], and also some aerial footage towards the end [50:30].
The Internet Archive site provides a transcript of the silent film's narrative.
You can access the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films collection at The Internet Archive here.
A silent film by Arthur and Kate Tode from 1930 is an interesting glimpse of travel in the Middle East between the wars. There are some stunning views of Petra [4:01] including a rare occurrence of snowfall [17:05] (apparently the first time it had snowed in Petra in 30 years), footage of the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus [24:02], the Ctesiphon Arch [33:00], the ruins of Babylon [37:14] and Ur [43:00], and also some aerial footage towards the end [50:30].
The Internet Archive site provides a transcript of the silent film's narrative.
You can access the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films collection at The Internet Archive here.
You can access the Museum website here: http://www.penn.museum/archives.html/film-archives.html
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